criollo

See also: Criollo

English

Noun

criollo (plural criollos)

1. Alternative form of Criollo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʝo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkɾjoʝo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkɾjoʎo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkɾjoʃo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkɾjoʒo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo
• Rhymes: -oʎo
• Rhymes: -oʃo
• Rhymes: -oʒo

• Syllabification: crio‧llo

Adjective

criollo (feminine criolla, masculine plural criollos, feminine plural criollas)

1. creole
2. Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas

Noun

criollo m (plural criollos)

1. creole
2. a person descended from European parents living in the Americas
3. (Philippines, historical, obsolete) Spaniard born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general

   Synonym: americano

   Coordinate terms: peninsular, insular, filipino, filipina

Derived terms

• ají criollo
• apio criollo
• cebadilla criolla
• criollismo
• criollito
• criollo haitiano
• pabellón criollo
• pato criollo
• terapia criolla
• zapallo criollo

 

Further reading

• “criollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• criollo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es